Newcastle’s 2-1 victory over Liverpool in 2025. Finals EFL Cup March 16 Magpies was the first Premier League team guaranteed European football 2025/26.
The result could lead to a team that end up under Newcastle, which reaches the conference league next season, depending on where Eddie Howe’s side ended up in the table.
Other stories still playing in a surprising, unpredictable campaign include whether 2022/23 Champions League Champion winners Manchester City will be absent from the competition for the first time under the manager of Pep Guardiola, last disappeared in 2010/11.
101GRAATGOMS.com explains that European qualification works for English clubs, including the competition of FA Cups and who are teams on the way to represent the country on the continent next season.
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– UEFA Champions League (@championsleague) March 14, 2025
European Qualification in the Premier League
Between seven and 11 English teams will play some form of European football next season, although it is more likely to be at least eight because of the country’s coefficient scale, which offer an additional Champions League location of the two nations whose teams are best in Europe this season.
The organizers of top competitions in England UEFA at the moment stand firmly on the track to earn an additional place as the Champions League quarterfinals, the Europa League and the Conference League.
Champions League qualification
Four best teams in Premier league It is guaranteed that there will be the League of the Champions League phase. A team that finishes in fifth place is probably due to the coefficient scale.
The winners of the Champions League and the Europa League will also enter the competition phase of competition.
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– UEFA Europa League (@europaleague) March 17, 2025
This means that Arsenal and Aston Villa could guarantee their involvement, regardless of their last league by winning the Champions League, such as Manchester United or Tottenham – of which both are unlikely to qualify for their league position – raising the Europa League trophy.
Total, England is likely to have between five and seven teams in the Champions League next season: the first five, plus Arsenal or Villa, if he finishes outside the first five and becomes European champions, and United or Tottenham if he wins in the Europe league and are below the fifth in the league.
European Qualification FA Cup: Europa League
FA Cup winners qualify for the Europa League phase, as well as the fifth placed team. However, if England gets an additional place for the Champions League, it will go to the fifth -ranked team and the side in the sixth entry into the Europa League.
The winners of the Conference League are also joined by the Europa League next season. Chelsea are warm favorites to win conference leagues before the quarterfinals and hope to reach the Champions League through their league position.
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– UEFA Conference League (@Conf_league) March 15, 2025
European qualification EFL Cup: Conference League
Newcastle is guaranteed a place to play Conference League to win the EFL Cup, but it will hopefully reach the Europa League or Champions League through their league position.
If that happens, their place of conference league would fall into the next highest final team in the Premier League that did not qualify for Europe.
Can a team at 11th place in the Premier League qualify for Europe?
There is a unlikely scenario in which all teams would qualify for the Champions League or Europa League in the top 10, and Newcastle in the Play-off conference league would go to the team in 11th place.
Here’s an example of how Premier league suggests that the outcome could happen:
- Liverpool, Arsenal, Nottingham Forest and Manchester City all qualify for the Champions League as the best four
- Newcastle reaches the Champions League in fifth place as a result of England won an additional video
- Brighton & Hove Albion qualify for the Europa League in the sixth
- Bournemouth comes seventh and qualify for the Europa League with a win in FA Cup
- Chelsea ends up on eighth and earning a Europa league embroidery with a conference league win
- Villas are ninth and goes to the Champions League as the owners
- Manchester United or Tottenham finish in 10th place but are in the Champions League as winners of the Europa League
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– Brentford FC (@Brentfordfc) March 17, 2025
What teams of the Premier League will qualify for Europe?
Before the Premier League returned to action in April, experts on Opta statistics projected this final Top 11.
- Liverpool
- Arsenal
- Sum
- City man
- Newcastle
- Chelsea
- Brighton
- Villa
- Bournemouth
- Fulham
- Brentford
This would guarantee Liverpool, Arsenal, Forest, City and Newcastle in the Champions League, with the identity of the English clubs in the Europa League and conference league, depending on the winners of the home and European Cups and the league’s positions.
Nottingham Forest would return to the leading European club competition for the first time in 1980/81, the season after their second in a two consecutive triumph in the competition.
If Bournemouth or Brentford qualified, it would be the first time that any club has participated in the European competition. You can Follow the latest predictions of OPTA here.
